Patches and Appliques (continued)

New memory card is in, so here are more appliques I just finished...

... two tees for Wesley who happens to be an invaluable rock star babe in our family band. I used a font called "cooper" for the "W" and I enlarged it as much as possible to fit on one page. I think it was 400 or so. The guitar is just freeform. I may stitch around it again with brown thread....not sure:)

Happy Birthday to Sweetpea, Sunshine & Cutie....

I've had the idea for these pillow shams swimming around in my head since Garnet Hill sold similar shams. I made these shams to coordinate with the quilts I made for our girls. I measured the width and length of a standard pillow sham for my pattern and freestyled the letters so it looks handwritten. I made one for each of our girls for their birthdays and had them pick out all of the fabric and trim from what I had on hand, so they really love their new pillow .

Resources: The ruffle trim for "Cutie" came from the top of the flat sheets I used for the backs of their quilts. I think gathering and making ruffles is a big pain, so I was glad to repurpose this trim.

The white front of the pillow is from a former sheet as well. One of my miniature artists colored on it, but the sheet was still in good shape...now it is two pillow shams. The back of the shams consist of fabric from the same sheets as the ruffle trim. For Christina's, the back is the top of the sheet from her quilt backing. There wasn't a ruffle, just a hem, so all I had to do was overlap two pieces and sew.

All of the lettering fabric is from my scrappy stash. I already had the pom-pom trim (found at Jo-Ann's) & the standard size pillows, so viola....an easy, resourceful, personalized project.

*To make this super fast & easy, you could buy a pre-made pillow sham and just add the applique using the fusible web, etc. Bed Bath & Beyond has basic white shams with a simple ruffle and I almost went that route before I realized I had resources on hand.

Here's a cute personalized pillow for a boy.